作者:
Jon Elster 出版社: Cambridge University Press 副标题: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences 出版年: 2007-4-30 页数: 484 定价: USD 32.00 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780521777445
This book is an expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Jon Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences. He offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms in the social sciences, relying on hundreds of examples and drawing on a large var...
This book is an expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Jon Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences. He offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms in the social sciences, relying on hundreds of examples and drawing on a large variety of sources-psychology, behavioral economics, biology, political science, historical writings, philosophy and fiction. Written in accessible and jargon-free language, Elster aims at accuracy and clarity while eschewing formal models.
The natural sciences, especially physics and chemistry, offer explanations by law. Laws are general propositions that allow us to infer the truth of one statement at one time from the truth of another statement at some earlier time. This kind of explanation is deterministic: given the antecedents, only one consequent (or antecedent) is possible. The social sciences offer few if any law-like explanations of this kind. The relation between explanans and explanandum is not one-one or many-one, but one-many or many-many. Many social scientists try to model this relation by using statistical methods. Statistical explanations are incomplete by themselves, however, since they ultimately have to rely on intuitions about plausible causal mechnisms. (查看原文)
2 有用 mogwai 2010-07-10 18:01:41
终于不读这个破东西了
3 有用 希仁 2009-09-08 19:20:46
有空要找这个爷爷所有的著作来看
2 有用 高端韭菜kimi 2015-05-06 18:16:13
不上syllabus对不起这本书的质量
0 有用 sillykoala 2011-02-14 06:05:14
value the first two chapters.
0 有用 三木 2015-03-13 08:53:13
翻过：作者是Raymond Aron的学生。1 can't rely on functional explanation, which uses consequence as cause; 2 rational- choice theory has less explanatory power.
0 有用 咩咩的咩咩 2022-03-10 11:33:43
解释力上非常有野心，理论抽象上很有建树的著作。从理性和有限理性的角度，解释人类社会中方方面面的理性和看似非理性的行为。对于经济学专业或理性选择学派的人，读这本书很顺畅，也很长见识，因为还引用到了心理学和神经科学的一些成果。 @2019-07-28 07:07:54
0 有用 射虎秀尔 2018-09-23 20:44:51
方法论、社会科学算科学吗的论述值得一看
0 有用 #中環卡夫卡# 2017-11-23 11:36:58
充满了个人风格但又不服不行的方法论必读书目
2 有用 高端韭菜kimi 2015-05-06 18:16:13
不上syllabus对不起这本书的质量
0 有用 三木 2015-03-13 08:53:13
翻过：作者是Raymond Aron的学生。1 can't rely on functional explanation, which uses consequence as cause; 2 rational- choice theory has less explanatory power.